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Another win for Megaphone!

Congratulations to everyone who signed the petition, Deakin University has reversed their stance.

Additional staff hired to support ESTA workers.

On Tuesday night, after listening to the community, Yarra Councillors voted down a blanket ban on alcohol in Edinburgh Gardens. Instead, they'll work to ensure there are more rubbish bins and toilets, and will work with the local community to make sure Edinburgh Gardens is accesible, safe and enjoyable for all!

Congratulations striking Fenner Dunlop workers! Workers have voted 100% in favour of an offer that includes: - 5% wage increase across the first year, 3% for year 2 and 3% for year three - Better rights around rostering and reasonable working hours Well done to all 50 workers who worked hard to achieve this result and stood firm the whole way through a two week strike. Union power!

NECA have withdrawn their proposed changes to the award. Thanks to you all for signing, sharing, and spreading this petition around. This wouldn't have been possible without you and your support. It's this type of swift collective activism from ETU members and non members alike that has made this possible in such a short time. We have won this round, but I'm sure there will be further attacks on our industry. Stay staunch, stay vigilant. Join your union.

Lecture attendance is crucial for university teaching. While 16 university management executives are making more than a combined $10 million and students are paying more than $50,000 for degrees, 4000 staff members are having to work 2-3 casual teaching jobs to make ends meet. This petition responds to the cessation of payment for lecture attendance in the School of Culture and Communication, but advocates for all staff and students in the Faculty of Arts. For the University of Melbourne to have a vibrant intellectual community, that community needs a place to meet and belong. The lecture theatre is one of the few fixed locations on campus where tutors carry out their work alongside lecturers and coordinators. Content isn’t merely disseminated downward from the lectern. The lecture theatre is a space where practitioners share knowledge before, during, and after the lecture itself. It is an important space for lecturers to receive feedback and contribute to ongoing discussions, and for senior tutors to mentor junior tutors. The integrity of the tutorial space is in question when lecture attendance is neither expected of tutors, nor paid. In order to appropriately model and support student engagement with course content, tutors need to attend lectures. Tutors provide the majority of face-to-face contact students have throughout their degrees. Students need assurance that the Faculty values best practice pedagogy, and that their tutors have a meaningful relationship to the campus they work on and the content they teach. We, the undersigned, petition the Faculty of Arts to recognise that staff working conditions are student learning conditions, that lecture attendance is vital pedagogical work, and that tutors must be paid for this work separately from and in addition to tutorial preparation.

Unions have won a 8.6% pay rise for minimum wage workers and a 5.75% pay rise for Award wage workers. This is the largest increase to the National Minimum Wage and Award Wages in Australia’s history. Together, ASU members campaigned for a meaningful pay rise in the Award Wage Review and WE WON! The Fair Work Commission has announced that Modern Award Rates will increase by 5.75% and the National Minimum Wage will increase by 8.6% on July 1, 2023.

The school decided to move to online teaching

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